Facebook now lets you create 3D photos without a portrait mode camera

Imagine if every photo in your Facebook news feed looked alive, like something out of a Harry Potter universe newspaper.

That's the reality Facebook is moving toward with a new feature that makes 3D photos available to everyone. First launched in 2018, the feature let people give their photos the appearance of a "moving" 3D background, provided the source image was shot using some manner of portrait mode.

Support for 3D photos arrived on Facebook right around the time that dual-lens smartphone cameras  popularized the feature called portrait mode, which captures a foreground subject in great detail while artistically blurring the background. Facebook's platform could then use the extra data in those image files to create an enhanced image in which the background appears to move. Read more...